‘Mourning the loss’ or ‘no regrets’: Exploring women's emotional responses to hysterectomy

Emotional Geographies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-48

  Collis, Marion ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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